Inherited from Middle French saulver, from Old French sauver, salver, from Gallo-Romance salvar, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”), from Latin salvus.
In the sense specific to North America, a semantic loan from English save.
sauver
| infinitive | simple | sauver | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | sauvant /so.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | sauvé /so.ve/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | sauve /sov/ |
sauves /sov/ |
sauve /sov/ |
sauvons /so.vɔ̃/ |
sauvez /so.ve/ |
sauvent /sov/ |
| imperfect | sauvais /so.vɛ/ |
sauvais /so.vɛ/ |
sauvait /so.vɛ/ |
sauvions /so.vjɔ̃/ |
sauviez /so.vje/ |
sauvaient /so.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | sauvai /so.ve/ |
sauvas /so.va/ |
sauva /so.va/ |
sauvâmes /so.vam/ |
sauvâtes /so.vat/ |
sauvèrent /so.vɛʁ/ | |
| future | sauverai /so.vʁe/ |
sauveras /so.vʁa/ |
sauvera /so.vʁa/ |
sauverons /so.vʁɔ̃/ |
sauverez /so.vʁe/ |
sauveront /so.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sauverais /so.vʁɛ/ |
sauverais /so.vʁɛ/ |
sauverait /so.vʁɛ/ |
sauverions /so.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
sauveriez /so.və.ʁje/ |
sauveraient /so.vʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | sauve /sov/ |
sauves /sov/ |
sauve /sov/ |
sauvions /so.vjɔ̃/ |
sauviez /so.vje/ |
sauvent /sov/ |
| imperfect2 | sauvasse /so.vas/ |
sauvasses /so.vas/ |
sauvât /so.va/ |
sauvassions /so.va.sjɔ̃/ |
sauvassiez /so.va.sje/ |
sauvassent /so.vas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | sauve /sov/ |
— | sauvons /so.vɔ̃/ |
sauvez /so.ve/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
From Old High German sūbar, from Latin sobrius.
sauver (comparative sauvrer, superlative sauvrest)
| Declension of sauver (see also Appendix:Hunsrik adjectives) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | ||
| Weak inflection | nominative | sauver | sauver | sauver | sauvre |
| accusative | sauvre | sauver | sauver | sauvre | |
| dative | sauvre | sauvre | sauvre | sauvre | |
| Strong inflection | nominative | sauvrer | sauvre | sauvres | sauvre |
| accusative | sauvre | sauvre | sauvres | sauvre | |
| dative | sauvrem | sauvrer | sauvrem | sauvre | |
sauver
From Old French sauver, salver, from Gallo-Romance salvar, from Late Latin salvō, salvāre (“save”), from Latin salvus.
sauver
From Late Latin salvāre, from Latin salvus.
sauver
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | sauver | avoir sauvé | |||||
| gerund | en sauvant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
| present participle | sauvant | ||||||
| past participle | sauvé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | sauf | sauves | sauve | sauvons | sauvez | sauvent |
| imperfect | sauvoie, sauveie, sauvoe, sauveve | sauvoies, sauveies, sauvoes, sauveves | sauvoit, sauveit, sauvot, sauveve | sauviiens, sauviens | sauviiez, sauviez | sauvoient, sauveient, sauvoent, sauvevent | |
| preterite | sauvai | sauvas | sauva | sauvames | sauvastes | sauverent | |
| future | sauverai | sauveras | sauvera | sauverons | sauveroiz, sauvereiz, sauverez | sauveront | |
| conditional | sauveroie, sauvereie | sauveroies, sauvereies | sauveroit, sauvereit | sauveriiens, sauveriens | sauveriiez, sauveriez | sauveroient, sauvereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | sauf | saus | saut | sauvons | sauvez | sauvent |
| imperfect | sauvasse | sauvasses | sauvast | sauvissons, sauvissiens | sauvissoiz, sauvissez, sauvissiez | sauvassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | sauve | — | sauvons | sauvez | — | ||